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dropbear — security advisory
Use-after-free vulnerability in Dropbear SSH Server 0.52 through 2012.54, when command restriction and public key authentication are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and bypass command restrictions via multiple crafted command requests, related to "channels concurrency."
- Products
- dropbear
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2012.55-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-0920
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Use-after-free vulnerability in Dropbear SSH Server 0.52 through 2012.54, when command restriction and public key authentication are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and bypass command restrictions via multiple crafted command requests, related to "channels concurrency."
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0920
dropbear
Fixed versions: 2012.55-1
dropbear
Fixed versions: 2012.55-1
dropbear
Fixed versions: 2012.55-1
Complete source record
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